The term “Dumb Firewall” is a term to describe a firewall program that has very little intelligence, hence its name. It’s primary function is to simply block ALL Internet connections by default. Some of these may ask you whether you trust a program before it will allow inbound or outbound connections to your computer. Users that choose not to trust the program may find that their Internet program cut off already. On the other hand, if they choose to trust the ‘WRONG’ program, they may be allowing hackers into their computer without ANY future warnings from the Dumb Firewall.

The Internet aside from being a repository of knowledge is also unfortunately a haven for malicious users that implement various types of attacks to penetrate computer system security with intent to cause damage. Securing the computer system has become the primary focus for both the individual and corporate users alike.

Internet security can essentially be broken down to three areas of concern, antivirus utilities, firewall protection and recommended practices (common sense). It is important that all of these three aspects be in place in your computer system to provide you adequate protection. Understanding the events that can lead to a compromised security is a necessity in computer protection.

Firewalls are often seen mainly as security utilities that help to keep malicious users out of computer networks. However, a more accurate description of firewalls is they are tools used for deterrent and enforcement of security measures meant to provide effective and efficient data, application and even network connection protection.

We are in a point in time where the smallest bit of data can be used as an advantage that can be transformed to billions of profit for a single enterprise. This is the reason that businesses have made securing communication networks a priority and an integral part of their practices. Firewalls help these enterprises to maintain the integrity of their data and keep their marketing secrets away from potential dangers.

A perfect personal firewall is characterized as inexpensive and easy to install and use with clearly defined configuration options and the ability to hide all ports that will make your computer system invisible from PC scans. Another important characteristic is that is alerts you of serious attacks and ensure that there are no unauthorized entries to your computer system.

Microsoft Windows firewall is usually the choice because it is bundled with the Microsoft Windows Operating System (Vista and XP Service Pack 2 editions) and is usually turned on by default in order to block incoming threats from the Internet. Until you have a decent third party firewall replacement, this built-in feature in Windows should be left turned on.

Hacker Eliminator would not be considered a firewall, if you were to define a firewall as to mean that it is something that would block port connections made to your computer, or to keep users inside your network from going out to other networks. Even though these types of firewalls and firewall programs have their uses for specific jobs, they also tend to give computer users a false sense of security. Which is why a lot of people are easily targeted by hackers and viruses. They simply don’t think the computer is worth the time spending countless days over, examining each type of firewall and choosing the best one.

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On the news survey, the most latest firewall application is now on market. Comodo assert that their firewall is unique, distinctive, matchless and rare in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of stylish tests to ensure its firewall powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard.

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-Secures against internal and external attacks
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-Personal Computers and Networks

A firewall is a piece of application software or a hardware device which provides protection to your computer system by screening out hackers, worms and viruses that try to infiltrate your computer system from the Internet with intents of causing damage to your computer system.

A firewall is different from an anti-spyware and antivirus although they all serve the purpose of protecting your computer system. Whether you have a small-office, home network or an enterprise network, activating a firewall software coupled with a firewall capable device will provide your network and all computers connected to it with the security that they need. Activating the firewall application on individual computers is necessary.

What Dumb Firewalls don’t do

a)They don’t monitor your configuration files

b)They don’t monitor your registry

c)They don’t monitor your startup folders

d)They don’t scan for or remove Trojans

e)They don’t provide a list of socket connections

f)They don’t do what a real firewall does, keep out unwanted products in an intelligent manner and not on a per application basis.

Real protection will only come from an official antivirus program which provides a multitude of useful protection, performs regular scans on your disk to check up on any missed viruses, and watches over your entire system.

Dumb Firewall programs provide absolutely NO protection whatsoever against backdoor programs that come built into Internet servers such as NetSnooper Gold. NetSnooper is an example of what ANY program can do to gain access to your PC once it has passed through posing as one of your trusted Internet programs.

If the user were to trust a program such as mIRC they would also be trusting any backdoored scripts that the program may load. Your computer could also be a host used to infect other computers. All of this can easily be done without even so much as a single warning bell from a Dumb Firewall.

With technology now moving faster than ever and vocabulary not being defined quickly enough, there are no exact technical terms today that are compiled into a list of rules restricting what makes up a firewall and what doesn’t. New words used on the Internet such as Stealth, Drone, R.A.T, Key Logger, and many others are not yet solidly defined in dictionary terms. Until now, we have only relied upon urban dictionaries and through word of mouth to know their definitions. With such a hopeless case in front of us, the only thing that we can do is to keep ourselves updated, be resourceful, and be sensitive to the changes of time. One blink and you will miss it.